Attachment for rocking-chairs.



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ATTACHMENT FOR ROCKING CHAIRS.

(Applicati m filed Oct. 16, 1899.)

(No Model.)

. rrn STATES PATENT FFICE.

OTTO CLAUSEN, OF DAVENPORT, IOWA.

ATTACHMENT FOR ROCKING-CHAIRS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 641,761, dated January 23, 1960.

Application filed October 16, 1899. Serial No. 733,733. (N 0 model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OTTO OLAUsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Davenport, in' the county of Scott and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Attachments for Rocking-Chairs; and I do de-. clare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings making a part of the same, is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 is a side view of a rocking-chair to which my attachment is applied. Fig. 2 is a plan View of the same, showing particularly the manner of connecting the attachment to the front edge of the seat of the chair. Fig.

8 is a View of the frame from a cross-piece of which the supporting board or attachment is suspended, as hereinafter described. Fig. 4 shows a modification of the supporting board or attachment and shows how the frame shown in Fig. 3 may be dispensed with, if desired.

Similar letters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

The objects of my invention are as follows: to provide a support or rest for the lower portion of the body while seated in the chair to which said support is attached; to enable the person occupying such chair to impart a rocking motion to the chair and support Without the need of removing the feet from said support, and to provide a comfortable and convenient support for the entire body while in a sitting posture. These objects will be fully understood from the following detailed description:

In the drawings, A represents an ordinary rocking-chair. B is the support, which can be constructed in sections 1) b 6 hinged together, to conform to the natural lines of the lower limbs while in a sitting posture. This support B, I attach loosely to the front edge of the chair-seat by turning eye-screws O G into the front edge of the chair-seat and similar eye-screws-D D into the inner end of the support B. A rod or bolt E is then passed through the eyes of such eye-screws, and a nut turned on the threaded end of said bolt holds said bolt in place, as shown in Fig. 2. To the outer edge of said support I secure a ring or eye-screw F. To this ring F, I secure one end of an elastic cord or spiral spring G. The

other end of said spring G, I fasten to a ring or hook H, which is secured tothe cross-piece of a frame I.

The construction already described is more particularly adapted for use indoors and is especially useful and convenient for invalids and convalescents. v

By reference to Fig. 4: it will be seen that the frame I may be entirely dispensed with by fastening the hook H into the ceiling or any stationary object overhead. Fig. 4 also shows the support B made of a single piece, with a small block or strip 12 to-serve as a heel-rest. This construction ismuch cheaper than that first described and is well adapted for use on hotel-verandas and the like.

When seated in the rocking-chair, the lower limbs resting upon the support B, the person may start the chair and support into rocking motion bya slight downward pressure of the feet. The support being hinged to the front edge of the chair, as described, such pressure of the feet will carry the outerend of the support downward and of course expand the spring or elastic cord G. When the down= ward pressure is relieved, the spring con tracts, the support being carried upward by it. This action will start the rocker and may be continued with little or no effort.

I am awarethat it is old to provide a footrest for the occupant of a rocking-chair and that patents have been granted upon devices attached to a rocking-chair and intended as a support for the lower limbs of the occupant of the chair; but the distinctive features of my device over those already patented consists in the following, which I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- 1. In an attachment to a chair aboard, one end loosely fastened to the front edge of the chair; a flexible cord one end of which is at tached to the out-er end of said board, a stationary object located above the board and to which the free end of the flexible cord is attached so as to suspend the free end of said board, for the purposes stated.

2. In an attachment to a chair, a board one end of which is loosely fastened to the chair; a frame or stand having a cross-piece; an elastic cord, one end of which is secured to 4. The combination of the chair A,the board loosely attached to the front edge of said chair, a spiral spring, one end of which is fastened to the outer end of said board; a stationary object located above the board to which the other end of said spiral spring is attached for the purposes stated and substantially as shown and described.

OTTO CLAUSEN.

Witnesses:

A. G. SAMPSON, T. A. MURPHY. 

